There is a new documentary making the festival circuit called “How to Survive a Plague.”

It’s about the early days of ACT UP and people standing up to government inaction in the early days of the AIDS Crisis. I’m old enough to remember those scary days of the 1980’s when young men were dying and the government was not taking any action to find out why or how to stop it.

Many people are alive today because of these brave activist of ACT UP. They made the government, the health care industry and the pharmaceutical industry pay attention. They were mad as hell and didn’t take it any more….

Where is that energy today? Cynicism and acceptance of the status quo are way too prevalent now….